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When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and...more

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What could be put up against the noise of time? Only that music which is inside ourselves - the music of our being - which is transformed by some into...more

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Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.

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History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

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For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memor...more

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Our nights are different. She falls asleep like someone yielding to the gentle tug of a warm tide, and floats with confidence till morning. I fall asl...more

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Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how...more

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If a memory wasn't a thing but a memory of a memory of a memory, mirrors set in parallel, then what the brain told you now about what it claimed had h...more

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Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto ev...more

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Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

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He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the...more

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The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail there is a line of telescopes; each brings the shore ...more

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When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that...more

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Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.